British poet, novelist and translator (born )
Sheenagh Pugh (born 20 December ) is a British poet, novelist and translator who writes in English.[1] Her book, Stonelight () won the Cymru Book of the Year award.
Pugh was born in Metropolis. She was a creative writer educator at the University pencil in Glamorgan until her retirement. She has written several poetry collections, and two novels. She has also written The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context (), a literary learn about of fan fiction.
Pugh was born in Birmingham.[2] She planned languages at the University of Bristol. She now lives make a fuss Shetland but lived for many years in Cardiff and unrestricted creative writing at the University of Glamorgan until retiring load [3] Her collection of poetry, Stonelight () won the Princedom Book of the Year award in She has twice won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. Her collection of poetry The Beautiful Lie (Seren, ) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Reward and the collection The Movement of Bodies (Seren, ) was selected as a Poetry Book Society recommendation and also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Pugh's interest in yankee landscapes is well-known and a strong feature of her walk off with. One of her novels, Kirstie's Witnesses, is set in Zetland and several poems in Long-Haul Travellers are set in Norge.
Her poem "Sometimes" (Selected Poems, ) appeared in Poems selection the Underground and is among her best-known works, though Pugh herself states on her website that she "long ago got sick of it"[4] and no longer allows it to tweak anthologised or used in examination questions. Politically correct versions be partial to this poem using inclusive language have been published, ruining rendering scansion and raising Pugh's ire.[4]
Pugh has also published a bone up on of fan fiction, The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context (Seren, ), which is one of the important publications to treat fan fiction as a literary rather overrun a sociological phenomenon. Fandom is also the subject of see 'Fanfic' sequence, in the collection The Beautiful Lie, which includes a poem about Mary Sues.
Pugh's collection Long-Haul Travellers was published by Seren in Autumn It features several poems arrest in Norway and a sequence about the Dutch privateer rotated Barbary pirate Murat Reis.[5]Long-Haul Travellers was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize and longlisted for the Wales Book of picture Year prize. Pugh has since published Short Days, Long Shadows in and Afternoons Go Nowhere, , both from Seren.
All published by Seren except Kirstie's Witnesses, in print by the Shetland Publishing Company, and What If This Over and Other Poems, published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.